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Review Art Books and Win Prizes - parka - 06-07-2010 06:15 PM

Win a prize with your book review

The goal is to feature more art books with the help of readers. For every book you review on the forum, you stand a chance to win a prize.

Categories of books to review
  • Art Book
  • Graphic Novel
  • Manga
  • Picture Book
  • Graphic Design Book
  • Video game guides
  • Basically visual books of any kind relating to art and design

Prize

One random winner will be picked to win $40 worth of art book(s) from Amazon (since I'm buying there).

It can be from:
Rules
  • Do a search before you review. Books that are already reviewed on the forum or on Parka Blogs are not eligible as an entry.
  • Post the review in the appropriate category on the forum
  • Append your reviews with "Book Review: "
  • Pictures are required. At least 5 to around 10-15. (Tips on posting images)
  • Limit the picture size 640 to 900pixels wide -- it will fit nicely into the forum without horizontal scrolling.
  • Uploading the pictures to the forum is preferred. If not, use Flickr, or Google Plus.
  • Videos are not required.
  • Reviews, well, must have a review written by you.
  • Include the ISBN number (or better, just copy the relevant product details section from Amazon)
  • Have a valid contact email (on you forum profile page) in event of you winning

All books reviewed will be at List of Art Books Reviewed by Readers. If you've reviewed a previously reviewed book, that will be listed but it's not going to be counted as a contest entry.

Just include the ISBN will do. On my side, I'll generate some Amazon affiliate links from the ISBNs. The links will be used to earn some money to fund future contests.

Suggestions on books to review

Check these list to get some suggestions on what to review: Upcoming | Upcoming Asia | Requested

Deadline

End of the month.

Consecutive winners

Each book review count as an entry. All past reviews are eligible into the future.

If you've won in the last contest, your entries won't be counted for the next three contests. That's to give other readers a winning chance.

Other notes

1. Check out some tips on reviewing books

2. Reviewers often get extra prizes for other contests held on the blog.

3. Check out tips on posting images

Signing up for a forum account

It's manual approval. Let me know your desired username using this contact form.

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - parka - 15-07-2010 10:49 AM

Past winners for the Art Book Review Contest


RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - gad - 03-09-2010 02:18 AM

wouldn't it be better if the winner would choose an art book from amazon that wasn't reviewed yet... so he can review it Big Grin

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - parka - 03-09-2010 11:28 AM

(03-09-2010 02:18 AM)gad Wrote:  wouldn't it be better if the winner would choose an art book from amazon that wasn't reviewed yet... so he can review it Big Grin

Good idea. I've updated the prizes section.

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - gad - 04-09-2010 05:19 AM

(03-09-2010 11:28 AM)parka Wrote:  
(03-09-2010 02:18 AM)gad Wrote:  wouldn't it be better if the winner would choose an art book from amazon that wasn't reviewed yet... so he can review it Big Grin

Good idea. I've updated the prizes section.

lol, it was kind of a joke, but i glad you liked the idea

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - kingtacchan - 28-11-2010 02:07 PM

Can I post a review made by me here in my blog?

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - parka - 28-11-2010 09:17 PM

(28-11-2010 02:07 PM)kingtacchan Wrote:  Can I post a review made by me here in my blog?

Sure. It's written by you anyway

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - Slug - 12-08-2011 03:18 AM

Is there a limit on how many art books we can submit? It seems I have a decent number of art books that haven't been reviewed on here yet that I'd love to share.

Also, out of curiosity, how often do you update the list of artbooks reviewed by readers? And do only the artbooks that are on this list count towards this contest? I found a couple of artbook reviews in the forums that were not on the list, the Groundworks of Evangelion 2.0 being one of them, despite having been submitted earlier than artbooks that are on the list, like Notebook by Kei Kobayashi.

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - parka - 12-08-2011 08:09 PM

(12-08-2011 03:18 AM)Slug Wrote:  Is there a limit on how many art books we can submit? It seems I have a decent number of art books that haven't been reviewed on here yet that I'd love to share.

Also, out of curiosity, how often do you update the list of artbooks reviewed by readers? And do only the artbooks that are on this list count towards this contest? I found a couple of artbook reviews in the forums that were not on the list, the Groundworks of Evangelion 2.0 being one of them, despite having been submitted earlier than artbooks that are on the list, like Notebook by Kei Kobayashi.

There are no limits to the number of books you can review.

Only art books that are listed are counted for the contest. I update whenever I can.

Since the list is manually updated, I do miss out some reviews by mistake. Thanks for telling me that.

RE: Review Art Books and Win Prizes - orentt - 16-08-2011 04:49 AM

I don't have any Photoshop or good programs like that so I don't know how to make the pictures size exactly 640X900, will it be OK if I make them 900px(without passing the 640px long) wide or 640px(without passing the 900px wide) long?